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Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
ROS Well I can tell you I’m sick to death of it. I don’t care one way or another, so why don’t you make up your mind.
GUIL We can’t afford anything quite so arbitrary. Nor did we come all this way for a christening. All that—preceded us. But we are comparatively fortunate; we might have been left to sift the whole field of human nomenclature, like two blind men looting a bazaar for their own portraits. . . . At least we are presented with alternatives.
ROS Well as from now—
GUIL —But not choice.
ROS You made me look ridiculous in there.
GUIL I looked just as ridiculous as you did.
ROS (an anguished cry) Consistency is all I ask!
GUIL (low, wry rhetoric) Give us this day our daily mask.
ROS (a dying fall) I want to go home. (Moves.) Which way did we come in? I’ve lost my sense of direction.
GUIL The only beginning is birth and the only end is death—if you can’t count on that, what can you count on?
Which statement best explains why Rosencrantz’s and Guildenstern’s feelings conflict?
Guildenstern is comfortable with uncertainty, while Rosencrantz is bothered by the uncertainty of their situation.
Guildenstern is not worried about completing their task, while Rosencrantz is worried he will not be able to complete it.
Guildenstern is unconcerned about how others view him, while Rosencrantz worries about what others think about him.
Guildenstern is happy to spend time away from home, while Rosencrantz feels uncomfortable with being in a strange place.